First Edition, First Printing of the Big Book, Inscribed and Signed by the Co-Founder of AA, Bill Wilson

First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by
Wilson on the front free endpaper. Octavo. viii, 400 pages.

Publisher's full red cloth with gilt titles. Housed in a full red
cloth clamshell case with black leather labels titled in gilt.
Moderate wear and soiling to the boards. Spine a bit dull, with a
donut-shaped dampstain halfway down. Some toning, light soiling and
wear along the textblock edges. Contents clean. A very good copy of
this landmark work.

"This extraordinary book deserves the careful attention of anyone
interested in the problem of alcoholism. Whether as victims,
friends of victims, physicians, clergymen, psychiatrists or social
workers there are many such, and this book will give them, as no
other treatise known to this reviewer will, an inside view of the
problem which the alcoholic faces. [...] The book is not in the
least sensational. It is notable for its sanity, restraint, and
freedom from over-emphasis and fanaticism. It is a sober, careful,
tolerant, sympathetic treatment of the alcoholic's problem and of
the successful techniques by which its co-authors have won their
freedom" (from the influential 1939 book review by Dr. Harry
Emerson Fosdick (a first edition of Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions inscribed from Wilson to Fosdick appears in this
auction at lot 36243).